Jenaro GuisasolaInstitute of Machine Tool (Campus IMH). School of Dual Engineering
Jenaro Guisasola
Doctor of Physics
research in Science and Engineering Education
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Introduction
My research focuses on two related avenues: Teaching and learning physics knowledge at university and high school; and the use of the history and philosophy of science as tools to help organize teaching and learning in the science curriculum. In the last decade, I have begun a line of research based on design that includes both the design, implementation and evaluation of Teaching/Learning Sequences, as well as interventionist research that generates new science education knowledge.
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A thoughtless treatment of Maxwell's equations can lead to the interpretation of the existence of a causal relationship between their different terms and, therefore, that an electric field that varies in time generates a magnetic one and vice versa. In this article we address the problems associated with these interpretations and their consequences...
En este estudio se analiza el razonamiento de estudiantes de quinto año de la escuela secundaria en Córdoba, Argentina, sobre la transformación y transferencia de energía, y la aplicación del principio de conservación de la energía en el contexto de la mecánica. Hemos analizado las respuestas de 33 estudiantes a dos situaciones problemáticas comúnm...
Resumen En este estudio se analiza el razonamiento de estudiantes de quinto año de la escuela secundaria en Córdoba, Argentina, sobre la transformación y transferencia de energía, y la aplicación del principio de conservación de la energía en el contexto de la mecánica. Hemos analizado las respuestas de 33 estudiantes a dos situaciones problemática...
We investigate how students in introductory electromagnetism courses apply the idea behind the magnetic field circulation in the context of the Amp\`ere-Maxwell law. For this purpose, we designed a metacognitive pencil-and-paper question, presented it to 65 students, and analysed their responses using phenomenography. We complemented our research b...
We investigate learning difficulties among second-year students in electromagnetism courses when they apply Ampère-Maxwell’s law. Using phenomenography, we analyzed written answers from 65 undergraduate physics students to four questions on Ampère’s and Ampère-Maxwell’s laws. We complemented our research by interviewing 12 students. To design the q...
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] Inquiring about students’ learning and their difficulties understanding the concepts and models of physics is a familiar challenge in physics education research. Researchers have developed various methodologies, such as phenomenography, to address...
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division physics students in a Mexican university to learn how students independently recognize the electric field’s main characteristics in the electric field lines diagram and as a source or target representation in conversion processes. We used the theory of registers of semiotic representations a...
Textbooks play a fundamental role in teaching and learning in school science classrooms. In this paper, we investigate the presentation of the nature of the electromagnetic field in a dozen of the world’s most popular introductory university physics textbooks. We analyze, from an epistemologically based teaching approach, the didactic treatment of...
Textbooks play a fundamental role in teaching and learning in school science classrooms. In this paper we investigate the presentation of the nature of the electromagnetic field in a dozen of the world's most popular introductory university physics textbooks. We analyse, from an epistemologically based teaching approach, the didactic treatment of t...
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In recent decades, research on physics teaching has contributed to improving the design and evaluation of instructional materials in physics courses. In this chapter, we first present a brief review of research on the design and implementation of Teaching/Learning Sequences, the achievements and problems that persist. A common weakness...
Los equilibrios de solubilidad constituyen un contenido esencial del currículum educativo de química introductoria. Para detectar las dificultades de aprendizaje del alumnado respecto a la forma en que se alcanza dicho equilibrio y qué sucede durante este proceso, se ha diseñado un cuestionario de preguntas abiertas. Las respuestas se analizaron me...
Un tratamiento superficial de las ecuaciones de Maxwell puede llevar a interpretar la existencia de una relación causal entre los diferentes términos y, por ende, que un campo eléctrico variable en el tiempo genera un magnético y viceversa. En este artículo abordamos los problemas asociados a dichas interpretaciones y sus consecuencias para la ense...
An understanding the General Principle of Work and Energy (GPWE) is essential to apply work and energy relations in General Physics courses. In this paper, students' reasoning about the GPWE is analysed in a social-constructivist theoretical framework of conceptual understanding and epistemological arguments. We designed a questionnaire with open-e...
En la investigación en la educación de la física es importante conocer las dificultades de comprensión de temas abstractos. Para desarrollar la comprensión del electromagnetismo, es fundamental que los estudiantes entiendan el concepto de campo. El objetivo del estudio es aportar una metodología que combina la fenomenografía y la teoría de represen...
In our study we consider an interdisciplinary STEAM curriculum approach where subjects are interconnected through problems and projects based on scientific-technical and social scientific concerns. Learning science content through STEM education is complicated and requires scaffolded instructional designs [4, 5]. An integrated engineering-based pro...
The question of the sources of electric and magnetic fields and their causes has been discussed extensively in the literature over the last 50 years. In this article, we approach this problem from the unified treatment of electromagnetic fields emphasizing the role of their sources in accordance with the cause-effect relationships. First, we analyz...
La crisis provocada por la pandemia de la COVID-19 ha llevado a la mayoría de las personas en todo el mundo a realizar un cambio en sus actividades cotidianas y ha resaltado la necesidad de una alfabetización científica. Sin embargo, pocos estudios han presentado intervenciones educativas relacionadas con las medidas preventivas ante la COVID-19. E...
Introductory physics course design is a challenge requiring innovation across many dimensions and responsibilities, all with the goal of improving student competencies. Discipline-based education research contributes to reaching that goal through developing and validating ways to improve active learning. For physics competencies, the main aspects t...
La comprensión del principio generalizado de trabajo y energía es crucial para aplicar las relaciones de trabajo y energía en cursos de física general y en la toma de decisiones de la ciudadanía en problemas relacionados con consumo y transferencia de energía y máquinas. Se ha diseñado un cuestionario de preguntas abiertas para detectar dificultade...
El aprendizaje del modelo científico del sonido (MCS) está presente en el currículum de ciencias de todos los niveles educativos y es un componente crítico de la alfabetización científica. Este trabajo presenta una revisión sistemática sobre la comprensión de los estudiantes del MCS en torno a tres ideas claves que emergen del análisis epistemológi...
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A symposium organized by the GTG PERU-Physics education Research at University
In this article we present a summary of initiatives that have been undertaken by a subset of the European Physics Education community to try to help students develop conceptual understanding. The contributions to this article represent a broad spectrum of ideas and resea...
In this paper we are presenting the design and evaluation process of a Teaching Learning Sequence (TLS) following Design Based Research (DBR) methodology. The TLS was designed for the upper secondary school students on particle dynamics. In this work, we present the very first results of the process. The iterative DBR methodology is presented givin...
Previous studies have shown that students have difficulties in understanding some concepts related to circular motion of particles. However, there are few studies on rigid body rotational dynamics. In this study, we have studied difficulties that Upper secondary school students have about the rotation of a rigid body. We have designed an 8 question...
In this chapter, we put forward a proposal for the design of teaching and learning sequences in high school and university. We will connect our proposal with relevant contributions on the design of teaching sequences, ground it on the design-based research methodology, and discuss how teaching and learning sequences designed according to our propos...
Desde hace unas décadas la investigación basada en el diseño de Secuencias de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje se ha convertido en una línea de investigación cada vez más aceptada con el objetivo de generar conocimiento sobre la naturaleza y las condiciones de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje, mediante el diseño y desarrollo de la innovación educativa en los ent...
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] We argue that teaching learning sequence (TLS) design needs to be further developed through the explicit articulation of methodology, which comprises the theoretical commitments regarding research and how those give rise to methods for design, implementati...
This chapter discusses the concept of design tools in the context of the design of teaching learning sequences in physics education. Design tools are compared to humble theories (Cobb et al in Educ Res 32:9–13, 2003) because these theories are connected to specific, content-based, learning processes and are to the activity of design. We find this c...
In this work we present the application of design based research (DBR) methodology to conduct a systematic iterative study of the design and implementation of a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on emf (electromotive force). This work is the final part of a broader study that started with the analysis of students’ difficulties with emf in the contex...
El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en diseñar una secuencia de aprendizaje sobre termoquímica como investigación guiada para el bachillerato, implementarla en dos cursillos de Didáctica de las Ciencias para futuros profesores de Física y Química y evaluar su impacto en la mejora del conocimiento termoquímico de estos. Participaron 35 estudiantes...
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division level physics students in a Mexican and a Spanish university to learn how students recognize the main characteristics of the electric field in three of its more widely used representations, namely, algebraic notation, vector field plot, and electric field lines, and how the students do conve...
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This book describes novel approaches designed to enhance the professional training of physics teachers, and explores innovations in the teaching and learning of physics in the classroom and laboratory. It features selected contributions from the International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP) and Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning...
En este artículo presentamos una propuesta de diseño y evaluación de Secuencias de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje (SEA) para secundaria y Universidad. Se tienen en cuenta aportaciones relevantes en el diseño de secuencias de enseñanza fundamentadas en la metodología de Investigación Basada en el Diseño y discutiremos cómo las SEA, diseñadas según esta propu...
En este artículo presentamos una propuesta de diseño y evaluación de Secuencias de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje (SEA) para secundaria y Universidad. Se tienen en cuenta aportaciones relevantes en el diseño de secuencias de enseñanza fundamentadas en la metodología de Investigación Basada en el Diseño y discutiremos cómo las SEAs, diseñadas según nuestra p...
Research has highlighted difficulties experienced by students when studying quantum physics in introductory courses. In this paper, we present a teaching and learning sequence (TLS) aiming at introducing a quantum model of emission and absorption of radiation and we assess its impact on the students’ learning about atomic spectra. The TLS has been...
A common way to represent an electric field in a course on electricity and magnetism is with the electric field line diagram. Some literature claims that students have difficulties understanding this representation and relating it to their understanding of the electric field concept. We conducted a study at the introductory level that aims to under...
In this article we report a Symposium organized by GTG-Physics Education Research at University (PERU) with different proposals that includes innovative educational approaches and research on problems of teaching-learning physics at university. In the second section, two research projects are described on teaching specific curriculum topics that pr...
In this contribution, we report the implementation and evaluation of a interactive Teaching Learning Sequence (TLS) introducing the concepts of Work, energy and the relations between them. The sequence has been designed with the Design Based Research (DBR) methodology. In order to analyse the effectiveness of the Sequence for students to be able to...
This study examines university students causal reasoning when tackling electric current in transitory situations. A questionnaire with emphasis on explanations was used to analyse students’ reasoning. The results obtained show that a significant percentage of students cannot correctly interpret simple transitory state current phenomena. Their expla...
The instructional alternative approaches to the traditional lectures in physics education are a growing area of research and development for improving physics teaching. Physics education research (PER) proposes new teaching approaches in a gradual research-based evolutionary process aiming empirical development at iterative development. These appro...
In this work, we explore how undergraduate students use classical field theory when describing physical phenomena in the context of introductory electromagnetism. We have extracted five key characteristics of the electric and magnetic field from a historical analysis of the topic. These characteristics informed the creation of a questionnaire compr...
We analyse the effectiveness of our Formative Intervention Module (FIM), where our was to support a groups of 46 pre-service technology secondary teachers at the University in Udine and a group of 32 pre-service technology teachers at the University of the Basque Country. The topic of the formative intervention was DC circuits because it is a topic...
En este artículo presentamos (algo remozado) nuestro modelo de resolución de problemas como investigación, con los resultados obtenidos por alumnos de Bachillerato y universitarios, con veinte años de diferencia. Se somete a prueba, pues, la consistencia y validez del modelo al constatar la repetición de resultados
In this article we present (some...
Este trabajo analiza las relaciones entre la formación, la investigación en didáctica y la práctica docente del profesorado de ciencias de secundaria. La muestra no probabilística está formada por 55 profesores de secundaria. La metodología elegida es de tipo mixto (cuantitativo-cualitativo) y utiliza tres instrumentos complementarios: un cuestiona...
Relations between work and energy are still a source of teaching-learning problems in the first years of university introductory physics courses since they involve abstract concepts and skills of scientific methodology. Considering the previous studies in the literature, the main objective of this contribution is to identify and document specific d...
Sound is a common phenomenon in our lives, a key concept in physics and present in
most curricula. Despite this, even university students show difficulties understanding sound. It is
relevant to identify these difficulties, because they can inform efficient strategies for teaching and
learning. We present the results from a systematic literature re...
In this paper we put forward a proposal for the design and evaluation of teaching and learning sequences in upper secondary school and university. We will connect our proposal with relevant contributions on the design of teaching sequences, ground it on the design-based research methodology, and discuss how teaching and learning sequences designed...
Qué entienden los estudiantes en cursos introductorios de Física sobre el principio generalizado de trabajo y energía: Un estudio en dos países Los conceptos de trabajo y energía y sus relaciones son complejos y hay interés y preocupación en el profesorado [1]. Este trabajo se ha desarrollado en cursos introductorios de Física a nivel universitario...
This study examines the causal reasoning that university students use to explain how dc circuits work. We analyze how students use the concepts of electric field and potential difference in their explanatory models of dc circuits, and what kinds of reasoning they use at the macroscopic and microscopic levels in their explanations. This knowledge is...
RESUMEN: En este trabajo presentamos resultados de un proceso iterativo de desarrollo de una Se-cuencia de Enseñanza/Aprendizaje sobre el principio general del trabajo y la energía en física general para estudiantes de primer curso del grado de ingeniería. En el análisis de resultados se ha utilizado la metodología del Diseño Basado en la Investiga...
In this work, we present research on university students' understanding of the concept of electromotive force (emf). The work presented here is a continuation of previous research by Garzón et al (2014 Am. J. Phys. 82 72-6) in which university students' understanding of emf in the contexts of transient current and direct current circuits was analyz...
Frequently, in university-level general physics courses, after explaining the theory, exercises are set based on examples that illustrate the application of concepts and laws. Traditionally formulated numerical exercises are usually solved by the teacher and students through direct replacement of data in formulae. It is our contention that such str...
Recibido en febrero de 2016, aceptado en junio de 2016] El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las actitudes y motivaciones hacia la Física y su aprendizaje de estudiantes de ciencias en el Bachillerato (16-18 años) y de diferentes grados universitarios científicos debido a la importancia que pueden tener estas actitudes y motivaciones en el apren...
Relations between work and energy are still a source of teaching-learning problems in the first years of university introductory physics courses since they involve abstract concepts and skills of scientific methodology. Considering the previous studies in the literature, the primary objective of this contribution is to identify and document specifi...
This study describes the design, implementation and effectiveness of a sequence of teaching on Electromagnetic induction (IEM) for the first course in science and engineering degrees. The script has been designed taking into account aspects such as: the interests, attitudes and values of students and the curriculum standards; the results of empiric...
Our study sets out to identify the difficulties that high school students, teachers, and university students encounter when trying to explain atomic spectra. To do so, we identify the key concepts that any quantum model for the emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation must include to account for the gas spectra and we then design two qu...
With contributions by leaders in the field, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of probability and statistics. Each of the chapters covers a major topic and offers an intuitive view of the subject matter, methodologies, concepts, terms, and related applications. The book is suitable for use for entry level courses in...
We have investigated whether and how a categorization of responses to questions on linear distance-time
graphs, based on a study of Irish students enrolled in an algebra-based course, could be adopted and
adapted to responses from students enrolled in calculus-based physics courses at universities in Flanders,
Belgium (KU Leuven) and the Basque Cou...
This paper summarises research presented in the symposium organised by the Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Enseignment de la Physique (GIREP) on content-focused research and research-based instruction. A specific topic area, electromagnetism, was chosen to provide focus and continuity. The interpretative ideas developed by physicists to acc...
There are many studies on students' understanding of DC circuits in the steady state, but few studies have been made about students' ideas on transient states of movement of charges in a conductor. The traditional Electricity curriculum often involves situations of transient motion of charges such as the process of charging a body (conductor or die...
Una actualización de nuestro modelo para enseñar a enfrentarse a problemas de física y química, con un ejemplo.Incluye resultados nuevos.
Frecuentemente en los cursos de Física general en la Universidad los problemas se resuelven como aplicación directa de la teoría, como si fueran ejercicios. En este artículo se muestran evidencias de que los estudiantes tienden a resolver ejercicios y problemas de manera superficial, sin aplicar estrategias de resolución fundamentales como el análi...
Research has shown [1] that understanding the relationship between electrostatics and electrodynamics requires meaningful knowledge about electric concepts. The aim of this investigation is to identify the scope of students' understanding about electric concepts related to the Drude model and the Surface Charge model. In this paper we will describe...
En este estudio se presenta el programa ?Zientzia Live!? de alfabetizaci?n cient?fica, que se ha llevado a cabo en centros escolares de la ESO de la Comunidad Aut?noma del Pa?s Vasco, y que trata de atender a la necesidad mostrada por la bibliograf?a de introducir formatos de ense?anza no formal en el contexto escolar. Se han abordado cuestiones co...
Educational research has highlighted the need for further research into the knowledge base of university teaching faculty, which needs to go beyond a mere familiarity with mathematical content. What is termed University Teaching Faculty Professional Knowledge would include aspects related to the current teaching of the discipline, such as the persp...
In this study is presented the "Zientzia Live!" Scientific literacy program, that was conducted at ESO level in schools of the Basque Country. It tries to meet the need shown by the literature to introduce forms of nonformal education in the school context. It has been addressed issues such as the teaching methodology of the workshops, the particip...
Most of the initiatives taken by the European Community and by other countries internationally in the field of science education focus on elementary and secondary levels of education, and relatively few reports have analysed the state of science education in higher education. However, research in science education, and in particular in physics educ...
School visits to museums and science centers are considered as a powerful learning resource given its playful and didactic potential but it is necessary that visits are integrated into classroom programming to optimize that learning. In this work we have tried to design and build bridges between school needs and what the museum offers, to ensure th...
This work provides evidence that the History of Science is a useful instrument when teaching sciences, specifically electricity, to identify where problems were encountered in building concepts and theories, indicating which epistemological barriers had to be overcome and the ideas that led to progress, social context and technological repercussion...
In traditional teaching, the fundamental concepts of electromagnetic induction are usually quickly analyzed, spending most of the time solving problems in a more or less rote manner. However, physics education research has shown that the fundamental concepts of the electromagnetic induction theory are barely understood by students. This article pro...
En este trabajo presentaremos el diseño e implementación del programa ERAGIN de la UPV/EHU, de Formación del profesorado universitario en metodologías activas de enseñanza. Se presentarán las bases teóricas del programa, el diseño de formación, las dificultades encontradas, y las cuestiones que nos planteamos de cara al futuro. Los resultados que s...
